The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-22

A DETERMINED fight is on at Washing
ton over the location of the Kansas land
office.
EIGHT new cases Of fever were reported
at Key West on the 18th, and one death.
THE 'atriarchal Circle conclave began
its session at Milwaukee, Wis, on the
18th.
OK the 18th the Western Nail Associa-
tion was in session at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Among the matters under discussion was
the question Of the advisability Of form
ing a pool with the Eastern manufacture
ers to regulate the output and selling
price. An Eastern representative was in
attendance.
On the 18th the convention of the Ma
tional Education Association began at
Chicago with a very large attendance.
On the 18th VIM. Fl. Everson & Co., iron
manufacturers, operating mill in Pitts
burgh, and coke works at Scottd ale, Pa,
made an as assignment to W. Minor Smith,
president Of the Bridgeport Safe and
Lock Company of dgeport, Conn. The
| liabilities are estimated at 500, 600, with
| assets estimated at $40, 600.
NEWS from Caudry, France, to Berlin
papers, reports great persecution of Ger
mans in that section.
Ex-SHERIFF RAMEY of Rowan County,
| KY, with a son, both of whom are w ound-
| ed, have been discovered at Lancaster,
Wis. The ex-sheriff gives some new facts
1 about the late war in which the Tollivers
were exte rminated.
THERE were reported at Key West, on
| the 18th, twelve new cases of fever and
| no deaths.
THE celebration Of the fall Of the Bastile
and President Grevy's review of the
French troops at Paris, on the 14th,
/ passed off without serious disturbance.
| THE following banks have been author
I
1 Bank of Quincy, Ill, capital 500, GOO;
First National Bank of Cimarron, Kas.,
| capital $50, 900.
AN order in council has been passed at
/ Ottawa, Ont, extending for ninety days
| the cattle quarantine to Manitoba and the
! Northwest territories.
SOUTHERN ARIZONA has been visited by
| very heavy rain-storms and cloud bursts
during the past few days. The rain fall
! is unprecedented. The Santa Cruz river
is over mile wide. Wash outs on the
Southern Pacific railroad have been
| frequent, and large numbers of live stock
| have been drowned.
TIE prize drill of Patriarchal Circle
! Temple, in attendance at the annual con-
cIave Of the Supreme Temple, was he'd
at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 14th. Ridgely
Temple, of BloOminglng, Ill, was award
| ed first prize; Occidental Temple, of Chi
| cago, second prize; Pioneer Temple, o1
Des Moines, Ia, third prize.
AN additional force of thirty Pinkertou
detectives arrived in Pitts sburgh from
| Chicago on the 14th, and were dispatched
at once to the coke regions There has
| been no trouble so far but the operators
| fear the Hungarian element and want
to be prepared in the event of an out
| break.
ELABORATE exercises were had at the
Chicago educational convention on the
18th.
THOMAS BURK has sued Kansas City,
Mo-, for 500, 600 for cutting through his
| property for railroad.
A MEDAL ana fund are in preparation
at New York for the negro saiher, Frank
| Robinson, who saved nine lives from the
wreck of the yacht Mystery.
ATTORNEY GENERAL HUNT, of Illinois
has given it as his opinion that pool-sell
ing and boOk-maklng come under the
| gambling law, and are prohibited.
JUDGE NoONAN, of St. Louis, on the 18th
| heard the case of Christ Won der Abe
! president of the st. Louis Browns
| charged with violation of the Sunday
law, and ordered his discharge. This
| opens the parks to Sunday base bal
! games.
The steamer Carroll arrived at Bos tor
on the morning of the 18th from Halifax
| n. S, having on board tWenty-nine pas
sengers of the lost Merrimac. The pas
| sengers appeared TO be IN good health and
looked none the worse for their mishap.
THE Secretary of State on the 18th re
ceived 3 telegram from the United State:
Minister at Honolulu, dated the 5th in
slant, saying that affairs are quiet in tina
country. Additional particulars by NAL
are expected in few days.
THE Mississippi Valley Medical Associ
alton completed its session at Cral
Orchard Springs, KY, on the 18th, by
electing DR.. Dudley s. Reynolds presi
dent and selecting st. Louis as the mex
place of meeting some time in September
1885
A CARGO of human beings, shipped Sin
bond" passed through Montreal on th'
18th. The novel freight was twenty
seven Cinnamon consigned to New Yorl
from San Francisco. When the train ar
rived the car containing the human
freight was found duly sealed and thu
| s.Tner chandise all in good order. y